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Filmmakers Andy and Barbara Muschietti, the creative minds behind 'IT' and 'They Will Kill You,' discuss their philosophy on on-screen violence. They reveal where they draw the line between purposeful gore and gratuitous cruelty, linking it to catharsis and hope in storytelling.
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00:00Do you have an intuitive line for gore of, like, how much is too much, or are you kind of,
00:04like, desensitized to it now?
00:06I think there's a line that, when it comes to cruelty, there's this whole, you know, there's a separate genre,
00:13which is torture porn.
00:14We don't, like, align too much with those.
00:16But when there's, every time that there's, like, a catharsis or hope, like in our movies, you can go as
00:23gore as you want.
00:25That's possibly, possibly can.
00:27That's a line.
00:28In our, you know, in They Will Kill You, clearly, there's a lot of gore.
00:32But, you know, there's a twist in the movie where, you know, it can happen.
00:38The gore can happen and, you know, there's no consequences.
00:43It's for good reasons.
00:44You know, it's, yeah.
00:46It's not gore for the sake of gore, I guess.
00:49No, it is.
00:50It totally is.
00:51It doesn't, like, it's not cruel, you know?
00:53Okay, yeah, I like that.
00:55It's fun.
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